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- July 03, 1989: Critics' Choice
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 03, 1989 Great Ball Of Fire:Angry Sun
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 12
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- <p>MUSIC
- </p>
- <p> PAUL McCARTNEY: FLOWERS IN THE DIRT (Capitol). McCartney
- goes back to the future by returning to his old Beatles label
- and collaborating with a shrewd, spiky co-writer, Elvis
- Costello. That Day Is Done and My Brave Face show both these
- lads in top form, and the entire album has a buoyancy that has
- eluded McCartney for years.
- </p>
- <p> DR. JOHN: IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD (Warner Bros.). When jazz
- meets up with rhythm and blues, it's usually less a shoot-out
- than a sellout: one or the other gets sold short. Dr. John, a
- surgical master at the piano and a good, gruff vocalizer, is
- one physician with a solid prescription to do each style right
- -- and proud.
- </p>
- <p>ART
- </p>
- <p> AGAINST NATURE: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES, San Francisco
- Museum of Modern Art. Architect Arata Isozaki and fashion
- designer Issey Miyake are famous abroad, but contemporary
- visual art from Japan is still little known in the West. The
- first major U.S. museum show from Japan in more than 20 years
- brings American audiences up-to-date with a survey of new work
- from the cultural center of East Asia. Through Aug. 6.
- </p>
- <p> THE DADA AND SURREALIST WORD-IMAGE, Los Angeles County
- Museum of Art. Between 1915 and 1940, painters like Max Ernst
- and Paul Klee experimented by juxtaposing images with written
- words, permanently altering the vocabulary of visual art. This
- adventurous exhibition explores the relationship not only
- between word and image but also between language, art and
- psychology. Through Aug. 27.
- </p>
- <p> HELEN FRANKENTHALER: A PAINTINGS RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of
- Modern Art, New York City. In the '50s, Frankenthaler's lyrical
- washes of color had a decisive influence on abstract
- expressionism; today she ranks as America's best-known living
- woman artist. These 40 canvases from four decades show why.
- Through Aug. 20.
- </p>
- <p>MOVIES
- </p>
- <p> MAJOR LEAGUE. In a season thick with baseball flicks, David
- S. Ward gives us a rowdy, genial, cynical comedy about a
- fanciful Cleveland Indians team. Populated by rejects from the
- Mexican, minor and California penal leagues, this motley Tribe
- can't lose. The dialogue is breezy, the tone acerb and the
- climax as predictably uplifting as Rocky's.
- </p>
- <p> DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Robin Williams is a Mr. Chips with a
- mission: to inspire his '50s prep school students with reckless
- passion. Like director Peter Weir, Williams is dead serious this
- time, donating his celebrity to an imperfect but valuable
- adolescent drama.
- </p>
- <p> SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BEVERLY HILLS. Not much
- class but plenty of struggle at the Lipkin mansion, where
- everybody upstairs sleeps with everybody downstairs. The
- setting is swank, the appetites gross in director Paul Bartel's
- clever comedy of sexual manners.
- </p>
- <p>THEATER
- </p>
- <p> ON THE TOWN. Washington's Arena Stage gives a fizzy revival
- to the whole of the classic musical, which is exuberantly
- excerpted in Jerome Robbins' Broadway.
- </p>
- <p> CYMBELINE. A mildly punkish off-Broadway version of
- Shakespeare's odd tragedy stars Oscar nominee Joan Cusack
- (Working Girl) as a wife wrongly accused of infidelity.
- </p>
- <p>BOOKS
- </p>
- <p> LET HISTORY JUDGE by Roy Medvedev (Columbia University;
- $57.50). This trailblazing recital of the crimes of the Stalin
- era, originally published in the West in 1971, caused its
- Soviet author considerable problems in his homeland. Now, after
- having added 100,000 scathing words to his first account,
- Medvedev has been elected to the Supreme Soviet. His book is
- thus historical in two senses: for what it reveals and for what
- it has contributed to social change.
- </p>
- <p> THE LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE, VOLUME I: 1904-1939 by Norman
- Sherry (Viking; $29.95). Greene may be the most elusive big
- fish still swimming in the shrinking pond of English letters,
- but this fascinating, obsessively detailed biography hooks him
- solidly. Hardly a question about the author goes unanswered,
- and Greene's best years, those of The Power and the Glory and
- The End of the Affair, are yet to come.
- </p>
- <p> MY SECRET HISTORY by Paul Theroux (Putnam; $21.95). Theroux
- has grown famous writing both novels and travel books. Here he
- produces an entertaining fiction about a man who does both, a
- teasingly autobiographical portrait of the artist as a young
- stud.
- </p>
- <p>TELEVISION
- </p>
- <p> DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS (NBC, June 29, 3 p.m. EDT). Once again
- Susan Lucci (a.k.a. All My Children's Erica) is seeking the
- elusive golden statuette. Will her tenth nomination (without a
- win) finally bring her the reward she so richly deserves? Or
- will Pine Valley's most renowned vixen be thwarted again?
- </p>
- <p> ANDREA MARTIN: TOGETHER AGAIN (Showtime, July 1 and 4). The
- versatile comedian portrays a gallery of zanies -- some
- familiar, some new -- in a one-hour special. Fellow SCTV alums
- Martin Short and Catherine O'Hara join her.
- </p>
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